in a given environment, would he have floated his name as a trial balloon as is believed to have happened here and as it went and withdrew it? maybe he would have after what happened with susan rice, i think, tucker, you know that everybody here in washington says, you know, you can do that once, but you can't do it twice, otherwise it looks like your decision making process as brit hume famously said to clinton in the '90s that has something after zig-zag quality to it. i think he's got to go forward with this. they say they haven't contacted hagel about it, but the president is on the way back from hawaii now, and certainly he's not officially announced as the nominee and that's expected to happen either tuesday or according to some, either monday or according to some reports, more likely on tuesday. >> alisyn: john, what are you going to be talking about on your show. >> we'll be talking about that, not surprisingly. with the fiscal cliff deal done with revenue, the next big battle coming up and three significant deadlines the end of february shall the debt ceiling battle has to take p